28.12.16

Hey, kids. Tomorrow is the Atom Miraiha Tour Final at the Nippon Budoukan...which means exactly what you think it means! Yes, that's right: time for the appearance of the weirdest possible shit Buck-Tick's merchandising manager has the nerve to call "tour goods." If you want us to help you purchase any of these items, email us IMMEDIATELY, as time is of the essence! Check your email frequently and have your money ready.

Without further ado, here they are:

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Buck-Tick x Astro Boy Official Collaboration T-shirt

100% cotton t-shirt from China, printed in Japan with an officially licensed graphic depicting the five Buck-Tick members as different incarnations of Osamu Tezuka's beloved character known internationally as Astro Boy and domestically as Tetsuwan Atomu. Not ehow the 9 on the back has spiky Astro-Boy-style hair. This tee only comes in one body shape (the one pictured below) but I believe the technical term for this is "cute AF."

s/m/l 3800 yen.

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Buck-Tick x Astro Boy Official Collaboration Bath Towel

At 1250 x 620 centimeters, this towel is big enough to be your own superhero cape, and it shows off the Buck-Tick Atomu Boys to much better effect than the t-shirt. This is definitely the best item put forth for sale on this tour, if only because this is the only time you're ever going to see Acchan-sama-chan wearing a pair of underpants. Savor the moment.

4500 yen.

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Nail Seals

If you're the kind of backwards fangirl who always wanted the Buck-Tick members on her nails rather than her nails on the Buck-Tick members (and good on you if you are!), these nail seals are for you. I notice that the left set includes the crow band member designs from last year, while the right set includes the band members' alchemical symbols as pictured in the 2017 agenda notebook (which we ourselves actually bought, and we can tell you right now is beautiful.) Anyway, these seals look like they'd fall off your nails at the slightest hint of excitement, but maybe you nail-gifted people can work some alchemical magic on them so that they stay on your fingers forevermore.

1000 yen.

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Ticket Case

It's a pink leatherette case for your concert tickets, embossed with a flock of Buck-Tick cats. The graphic at right is simply to show the cats more effectively. We highly recommend this item to anyone who was willing to pay more on auction for a picture ticket than for a ticket devoid of pictures.

1500 yen.

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Trading Card Case

It's a sad gray leatherette case for all the trading cards you bought hoping in vain that one of them would turn into an actual band member, or at the very least have the courtesy to move around like photos in the Harry Potter universe, only none of them did. Same Buck-Tick cats graphic, but none of the pink.

1500 yen.

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Buck-Tick Fortune Cards

This is kind of cheating, because this time, as can be seen below, they've given away what all the possible fortunes are. As you can see, this time, instead of only offering "great bad luck" (as last year), Sakurai's possibilities include "meh luck" and...dare I say it...actual good luck. Imai's fortunes, on the other hand, are all positive, and written in the enthusiastic English of a YouTube commenter. Collect them all!

500 yen each.

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Tour Final Commemorative Silver Necklace

This hideous bling is not what we were hoping for when we requested that future tour goods include more silver jewelry...but it is real Sterling silver, and at 1.35 x 1.8 centimeters, it will advertise your angel dust wealth to all the hoes in the hoods of Buck-Tickistan. But know that if you put this on and you can't do a perfect imitation of the rap from "Future Song," you'll have betrayed yourself as a fraud forevermore. For the rest of us - if you think the box is cooler than the necklace, you're not alone.

10000 yen.

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Year-End Capsules

It's time to lead the capsules if you dare! This time it's only good stuff: Buck-Tick Atomu Boy keychains, AND the Buck-Tick good luck charms of last year, back by popular demand. Couldn't secure safety in the bedroom last year? You've got another chance this year...only you don't, actually, because this year, Mr. Sakurai's charm is a charm for "traffic safety." Don't drive your car too fast through the mountains of Gunma, and take care to use hand signals when out on your bike of a rainy midnight through the backstreets of West Tokyo! As for the other band members, Imai's charm promises "fun and happy life," which due to the rich complexity of Japanese also means "a fun and musical life." The other band members also employ this fun - Toll's promises "wealthy safety and fun," otherwise known as "rich and safe music" (don't stub your toe on your drum set in the dark!) Yutaka's offers "riches and fun in the spotlight," i.e. "make lots of money as a rock star with all the lights on you"...but as it happens, Hide's charm is the exact same one as last year: safe childbirth. If you ever doubted that Hoshino Hidehiko wanted to get you pregnant, please consider your doubts allayed.

500 yen each.

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Rubber Band Bracelet

Like those Livestrong bracelets that people used to wear to show solidarity with users of anabolic steroids, but for Buck-Tick. Apparently they sold a different bracelet (that is to say, a bracelet with a different color scheme) at every stop on the tour. Lots of Japanese fans bought them and wore them up their arms like a combination of long-time patrons of Wave Gotik Treffen and skater emo kids who haven't yet found out that the 90's are long gone, and jelly bracelets along with them. Why anyone would want this, we can't fathom, but it could be yours for just

500 yen.

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Acchan-chan Eye Mask

If you ever fantasized about Acchan-sama coming into your house in the middle of the night to confess that he likes watching you sleep, well, this won't make that fantasy a reality, but it will help you watch with (very scary) Acchan eyes while you catch some shut-eye. Or, you know, engage in some extremely questionable bondage play. And since tomorrow's show is basically just the Day in Question in disguise, questionable is in. We also recommend this item to fans who ride airplanes alone, as it's sure to preclude the possibility that you will be sexually harassed by the person in the seat next to you if you succeed at persuading the flight attendants to bring you enough of those mini liquor bottles that you can actually fall asleep on the plane.

1500 yen.

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Imai Guitar Cookie (Real Version)

It's a 62 gram iced cookie in the shape of Imai's guitar. The website doesn't verify whether or not it's edible but we're going to assume that it is because it lists an expiry date of June 2nd, 2017. What's going on in Buck-Tickistan, kids? This is the weirdest shit we've seen in a while.

1000 yen.

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Imai Guitar Cookie (Cartoon Version)

It's a 55 gram iced cookie in the shape of Imai's guitar (deja vu!) Why does the "real" version cookie weigh 62 grams but this cartoon one only weigh 55 grams, and how can a single cookie cost 1000 yen if it isn't full of weed? Don't ask us because we don't know.

1000 yen.

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Hoshino Hidehiko Hipster Glasses

They come in three strengths: 1, 1.5 and 2. Which means you can get ones that double your vision, or ones that, in true hipster style, don't do a damn thing for your eyes except make you look cool. Fun fact: Motokatsu (rumored father of Imai's baby) has been wearing non-prescription glasses like these for many more years than Hoshino Hidehiko, but Motokatsu's frames are black. Fun fact: dear Mr. Sakurai actually needs prescription glasses in his real life and is probably now peeved that Hide not only took this business chance away from him but also chose a leopard print pattern so as to preclude the possibility of Kurumi glasses. Hide fans: you win.

3800 yen.

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Cafe Hoshino Coffee Mug & Saucer

It holds 250 cl of your home-brewed Hoshino Coffee or Hide Tea Time Tea. It has a pentacle on it that you can use to summon the Goddess or worship Satan, depending on the way the plate is facing. It has an elegant fluted shape evoking the curves of a slender-figured woman. And it matches your hipster glasses.

2500 yen.

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Toll Pussyhawk Hand Towel

Toll's Pussyhawk Pussy plays with some Atomic stars. Let's pass over the fact that there are only eight stars, not nine, because the cuteness of this towel means that all shall be forgiven. It's 18 by 24 centimeters, just the right size for you to carry in your pocket. Bonus points if you use this towel to polish your Hide glasses.

1000 yen.

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Toll Pussyhawk Smart Phone Case

Toll's Pussyhawk Pussy, now on your phone, too. Technically only fan club members are allowed to buy this one, but if you want one, all you have to do is ask a fan club member to get it for you. Comes in two sizes: 165mm x 140mm (recommended for the iphone 6), and 185mm x 158 mm (recommended for the iphone 7.)

1000 yen.

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Just One More Kurumi T-Shirt

If you haven't already bought like seven of them, you can get this full color fanclub-only one! Bonus points if you wear it to some tiny live house where one of the non-Acchan members of The Mortal is putting on some dark screechy indie show - but if you do this, make sure you hang on the front railing while staring hungrily and drooling at said non-Acchan Mortal member, so he can be absolutely certain that you're not there because you're interested in his music and you want to see him play. If you do this, make sure that at no point do you look excited or interested in the music. Fangirls who've already done this at multiple u crack irigaru and My Way My Love shows in 2016: congrats, you're ahead of the curve. Take a nice helping of bonus points from The Blog-Tick Phenomenon.

4200 yen.

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Just One More Kurumi T-Shirt, Once More

The advantage of these new Kurumi t-shirts: on the back, she's wearing a tophat and red bowtie, both of which look like they were applied to her photo in Microsoft Paint, which reminds us of the graphics for the old layout of NGS, and therefore makes us all nostalgic. Please somebody, buy all the Kurumi t-shirts and wear them all at once, preferably while stalking the non-Acchan members of The Mortal. Everyone knows that the person who wears the most t-shirts at once is the biggest fan.

4200 yen.

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Imai Atomu T-Shirt

The Atomic Future version of the Dada Dada Dada t-shirt from years past. Holy shit guys, this shirt is actually cool and not something you'd be embarrassed to leave the house wearing. Only fanclub members are allowed to buy it but even if you're not in the fanclub you could still get someone to buy it for you.

3800 yen.

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Yutaka Serious Boy Plushie

Yet another Yutaka plushie for your ever-swelling keyring of miniature stuffed animals...only this one isn't an animal, it's a boy...and soon to be a beast, if you're doing it right! Introduce him to the Seven Deadly Sins, one by one by one, and watch that serious little frown of his turn into a delighted smile! Also, whatever is that circle over his butthole and whyever is it there?

1500 yen.

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AND LAST BUT OH SO DEFINITELY NOT LEAST...

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Yutaka Serious Cock Plushie

Happy 2017: Year of the Cock. Wishing you much serious cock in the new year. If Sakurai doesn't already know how fitting it is that Buck-Tick get to turn 30 in the Year of the Cock, we hope we get to be the ones to tell him. Judging by the looks of this plushie, Yutaka almost certainly doesn't know.

1500 yen.

.And that's all the goods, folks. Let us know which ones you want asap and we'll try to get our grubby little paws on them before they're all gone.

15.12.16

Anyone who wants a ticket to the show next Friday, December 23rd at Nagoya Forest Hall, shoot us an email! A Blog-Ticker friend was planning on going but found out she has to celebrate the birthday of her soon-to-be-101-year-old grandmother. Mazel tov!

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In other news, this yaoi story translated by Cayce is now web-published for public consumption. For those of you turned off by bunny ears: it's not what you think. It's actually pretty snarky. We recommend (and they didn't pay us to say that).

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In still other news, Yagami Toll has donated a full Gretsch drum set to Tago Studio, a professional recording studio in Takasaki. The mayor of Takasaki, who was present at the donation ceremony, said, "We welcome this opportunity for the children of the city to realize their dreams." After receiving a certificate of gratitude from the mayor, Toll proceeded to de-virgnize the new drum set by playing a drum solo, which reportedly caused the onlookers to become very excited. "I'm sure there's buried talent," said Toll. "I'd like to be of at least a little help to the musicians of Gunma. If you don't give up, you can become a musician."

12.12.16

UPDATE: ALL THE CDs ARE GONE. As in, they're all sold. Thanks folks, for taking them off my hands. But for the folks who wanted some of these CDs and didn't get to them fast enough, or folks who want other CDs that weren't on this list - contact me and I can help you get another copy! It won't be sale price but I try to keep prices here as low as possible.Hey folks! Cayce's doing some winter cleaning, and has discovered in the process that we have entirely too many extra Buck-Tick CDs for our own good. Therefore, addition to the items we introduced in our last shopping service post, we are also offering the following Buck-Tick CDs for sale, at the following extremely low and affordable prices. All CDs are in good to excellent condition. All are original official Japanese domestic releases, no re-releases, no bootlegs, no fakes. Most include obi strips. As always, sales are on a first-come, first-serve basis. If you would like us to put an item on reserve for you, let us know. We are willing to put items on reserve for up to a month. If you would like to purchase any of the items below, or simply have further questions, please contact us at themadaristocrat at gmail. Shipping rates depend on how many CDs you buy, which country you live in, and which shipping method you prefer.

Also, a poll question: how many of y'all would be interested in buying some slightly vintage Buck-Tick tour tees? We've got a huge stash, predominantly of 13kai and Memento Mori era t-shirts, but a few older and newer ones as well. Most are black with either red or silver printing and therefore appropriate with goth outfits, but there are a few outliers in strange colors. Most are size small and either very lightly worn or never worn and still in their original packaging. If you're interested, post a comment, and we'll offer more information..

8.12.16

For the first time in a long while, here's a shopping service post for y'all! The following items are taking up too much space on our shelves. Buy some of them and take them off our hands so we can hunt for more! As always, orders are on a first-come, first-served basis. Send all order requests to themadaristocrat at gmail. Payment is via PayPal in Japanese yen.

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SOLD

The Day in Question 2005 Pamphlet

This matte hardcover tour pamphlet from the 13th Floor edition of The Day in Question is the size of a standard DVD case, and contains 64 full-color pages of studio photography of the band members having a gothic picnic in their gothic mansion, hanging around under sparkly chandeliers, and making wink-wink nudge-nudge use of symbolism with hobbyhorses, apples and blindfolds, all while corrupting an innocent young Alice who happens upon their party. This is hands-down one of my top three favorite tour pamphlets of all time, and it's now very rare and out of print. Not to be missed! The textured pages were difficult to photograph, but I assure you the photos are very crisp and clear in person. 6000 yen.

Front Cover

Picnic in the garden. Note Imai's "staff," and Acchan's fanboy fan.

Wouldn't you love to take a bite out of Yutaka's apple?

...or take a ride on Hide's sexy beast I mean hobbyhorse?

"Come take a look in my picnic basket"

Even Acchan is an Acchan fanboy.

This one speaks for itself.

"Even my bathroom has chandeliers."

"Guys, don't you love hanging up the green screen and pretending like we're picnicking outside?"

This gorgeous, giant hardcover photobook was released as part of Sakurai Atsushi's solo project. Contains 158 pages of sexy, arty photographs of dear Mr. Sakurai. Most of the photos are black and white, but a few are in color, including that one that all the fangirls love to make into livejournal icons. This is a must have for any fangirl, though you'll have to take care not to stain the lovely glossy pages with your fangirl juices. Rare and out of print. Generally good condition. 9000 yen. Special shipping rates apply (this thing is so heavy you could use it as a weapon.)

Front Cover

Come on baby light my fire!

We saw what you did there, photographer.

ARMPRONZ (is that how you say it in fangirl speak?)

Please me, oh yes. It's like a porunograph. Get off get off just!

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Warp Days DVD

Live DVD of Buck-Tick's concert Tour 2002 Warp Days 20020616 Bay NK Hall. In Cayce's opinion, this is one of their more exciting and dynamic live DVDs, featuring an unusual array of songs they rarely play anymore. One disc, region 2, excellent condition. No first press was issued. Track list below. Rare and out of print.

5500 yen

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Shippu No Blade Runner

21st Cherry Boy (includes the Flower Incident and other stories)

Warp Day

Aku No Hana

Trigger

Ghost

Shanikusai -Carnival-

Kyokutou Yori Ai Wo Komete

Long Distance Call

Brilliant

Misshitsu (filmed with the Sakurai cam!)

Down

Love Letter

Iconoclasm

Baby, I Want You.

Uta

Oukoku Kingdom Come -Moon Rise-

Barairo No Hibi

Rokugatsu No Okinawa (holy crap they never play this one!)

National Media Boys

Hurry Up Mode

Cosmos

Continue

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Aaand...some screen caps!

Mr. Sakurai can be seen wearing the custom-made Schwein tour ring.

Mr. Imai can be seen wearing futuristic robot makeup!

And Mr. Imai can be seen fingering his guitar, right in the F-hole! (Don't try to claim you haven't fantasized about this at least once. I know you're lying.)

And Mr. Sakurai can be seen pouring a bottle of wine on his head! He was partying like it was 1999 in 2002! Those were the days!

As they say in German, Buch Dich, Mr. Sakurai. Buch Dich.

.Dropz - Sweet Oblivion (limited edition)

The only album ever released by Hoshino Hidehiko's side project Dropz, for which Mr. Hoshino was the guitarist and main songwriter. The other members of the group were British-Indian vocalist Kelli Ali (formerly of Sneaker Pimps) on vocals, and Cube Juice (who has worked extensively with Buck-Tick and wrote the songs "Fantasy" and "Tensei" for Sakurai's solo album Ai no Wakusei) on synth. Dropz are chillout lounge music, with a bit of sweetness and a bit of mystery. All the lyrics were written in English by Kelli Ali. If you loved Sneaker Pimps' first record Becoming X, you will love the Dropz. Also highly recommended to fans of Portishead, Massive Attack, and, of course, Hoshino Hidehiko. This limited edition comes with a bonus disc of remixes and is in perfect, pristine condition. Rare-ish and out of print. 3500 yen.

.My Way My Love - Caution Tape

For those of you who don't already know: My Way My Love is the longstanding noise/grunge/shoegaze/dreampop project of Murata Yukio, a contributor to Sakurai's solo album Ai no Wakusei, and more recently a member of Sakurai's side project band The Mortal. Caution Tape is not My Way My Love's only DVD, by any means, but this is by far their most professionally produced. Contains the entirety of the final concert on the 2009 I'll Cure You With Electricity tour, held on July 19th, 2009 at Daikanyama Unit. Also contains a lot of bonus footage of the band as they travel Japan, sampling local delicacies in many prefectures. If you really love watching Japanese hipsters eat street food from food trucks, then boy is this the DVD for you! Warning: these guys do not wear leather pants or eyeliner and Acchan-chan is not on this DVD. Rare, out of print, mint condition, region 2. 4500 yen.

Track List:

Vagabonds

Lemon

Cowboy Killers

Kill Your Idol

Wreck Low

Garden the Underside Little Dead Leaves

The Rainbow Song

C.

tell me what went wrong my baby

Flake

Acupuncture Man

The Devil Song

P.I.E.

Death Has No No Fans

BAY

Pxxxx

ovo

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SOLDTsuchiya Masami - Mori no Hito

1997 solo album from Tsuchiya Masami features Sakurai Atsushi on guest vocals on two tracks, "Manatsu no Yoru no Mori," ("A Midsummer Night's Forest") and "Goblin Forest." Beyond Sakurai's guest vocals, this is a beautiful album in general, full of mysterious, soothing tracks, including vocals and instrumentals, and incorporating many forest sounds like birdcalls and crickets...great to listen to for relaxation and very possibly one of Cayce's top ten favorite records ever! Conceived as a concept album against environmental destruction, the case and booklet were printed on recycled paper. The album was recorded in London and released by Cross Records, Sugizo's label. Song samples available on request. Incredibly rare and out of print. Excellent condition.

One-of-a-kind rock band Buck-Tick got their start in the mid 1980's as an iconic product of Japan's "band boom." Maintaining the same lineup of members for the entirety of their 30-year career, Buck-Tick have had an enormous influence on the subsequent development of Japanese rock and rock-n-roll culture.

In 1989, the band scored their first chart-topping hit with their third album, Taboo. Just two years after their debut, they joined the ranks of Japan's top artists, playing to sold-out crowds at the Nippon Budoukan and the Tokyo Dome.

Never content to rest on their laurels, the band followed their initial success by deepening their pop sensibilities with a darker worldview, and expanding into more experimental territory, taking chances on radical new performance styles and technology in a process of continuing evolution.

In 2012, the band established their own new label, Lingua Sounda, in conjunction with their 25th anniversary. To celebrate the anniversary, the band held a festival on September 22nd and 23rd entitled "Buck-Tick Fest 2012 on Parade" in Chiba Port Park at an outdoor venue designed specially for the occasion. In addition to two hour-long headlining performances by Buck-Tick, the festival also featured a complete roster of artists who contributed tracks to Buck-Tick's second tribute cover album, Parade II -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick.

In 2013, a double-feature documentary film about the 25th anniversary, The Buck-Tick Phenomenon, was released in cinemas throughout Japan to great acclaim.

In 2016, the band returned to their original label, Victor Entertainment, after 20 years of work with other labels. New World, the band's first single since rejoining Victor, was released on September 21st, followed by a new album, Atom Miraiha No. 9 on September 28th.

In 2017, Buck-Tick celebrated their 30th anniversary, and were awarded the Inspiration Award Japan, a special prize given to music artists who have had an outsize influence on the development of pop music in Japan. The band accepted their award on September 27th at MTV Japan's live music video awards show Video Music Awards Japan 2017 -The Live-,” where they also gave a special live performance.

On September 20th, the band released a 30th anniversary best album entitled Catalogue 1987-2016. Following this, on September 23rd and 24th, the band performed a pair of concerts, Buck-Tick 2017 The Parade -30th Anniversary, "Fly Side" and "High Side," at Tokyo's Odaiba Special Outdoor Event Area J, attracting a crowd of more than 20,000 people over two days. Then on November 15th, the band released its first 30th anniversary single, Babel.

Before releasing Babel, the band embarked on an 18-stop national tour, The Day in Question 2017, opening at Omiya Sonic City on October 21st and featuring a stadium performance at Takasaki Arena in their home prefecture of Gunma, before concluding with a pair of finale concerts at the Nippon Budoukan on December 28th and 29th.

In 2018, the band released another single, Moon Tell Me Goodbye, on February 21st, followed by a new album, No. 0, on March 14th. The band are currently in the middle of a new tour, Buck-Tick 2018 Tour No. 0, to promote the new album.

One-of-a-kind rock band Buck-Tick got their start in the mid 1980's as an iconic product of Japan's "band boom." All hailing from the small rural town of Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, the five band members met while still in high school, bonding over a mutual love of records during informal gatherings at the home of band founder, lead guitarist and main songwriter, Hisashi Imai. Though the band's original lineup featured a different vocalist and Atsushi Sakurai on drums, after graduating high school and moving to Tokyo to pursue their dream of becoming professional musicians, the band soon switched Sakurai to vocals, and bassist Yutaka Higuchi recruited his older brother Toll Yagami to play drums instead. The band have maintained the same five members since that time.

After being signed to the indie label Taiyo Records, the band rocketed to stardom, making their major label debut on Victor Entertainment within a year, and taking the Japanese music scene by storm with their infectious punk melodies, spiky bleached hair, bold costumes, and theatrical stage shows. Within two years, they topped the charts with their third album, Taboo. Recorded in London, Taboo marked a turning point for the band, from a teenage pop sensation into something darker. Buck-Tick continued into darker territory with their next album, Aku no Hana (The Flowers of Evil), named for the poetry of Charles Baudelaire.

Never content to rest on their laurels, Buck-Tick followed their initial runaway success with a push into more experimental territory, spending many more hours in the studio to create ever deeper, more layered records. Koroshi no Shirabe -This is NOT Greatest Hits- (The Song of Murder), a self-cover album featuring heavily reworked versions of the band's earlier material, was followed by another album, Kurutta Taiyou (Crazy Sun), now regarded as a classic of Japanese rock and roll. From this album forward, vocalist Sakurai took a greater role in the band's creative output, penning darker, more introspective lyrics based on personal experience rather than the romantic fantasies of the band's previous works. While lead guitarist Imai remained the band's main composer and creative director, rhythm guitarist Hidehiko Hoshino also began to contribute more to the songwriting, cementing the band's mature sound.

Over the next two decades, Buck-Tick continued to evolve, exploring a diversity of genres ranging from new wave to industrial, shoegaze, punk, electronica, dreampop, surf rock, rap, Latin dance, goth, and symphonic metal. Drawing on both Western and Eastern influences, the band developed a unique style instantly recognizable despite their continuous genre-hopping. Layers of minimalist riffs, melodies, and electronic tracks synergize into an immersive, kaleidoscopic sonic experience far more than the sum of its parts. Tied together with the tight grooves of the Higuchi brothers' bass and drums and the bold simplicity of Hoshino's rhythm guitar, Buck-Tick's songs feature Imai's instantly memorable guitar licks like a second vocalist, even as Imai often adds eccentric backing vocals to Sakurai's rich baritone lead vocals. Cosmic themes of love and death abound in the piquant, poetic lyrics, which traverse as many genres as the music, overflowing with inspiration from art, literature, and philosophy.

The result is something utterly original, which continues to exert a tremendous influence on the progress of Japanese rock music to this day. Maintaining a large and wildly devoted cult following, the band continue to perform for sold-out crowds at Japan's most well-respected music venues, and are regularly cited as an influence by younger Japanese artists. A number of Buck-Tick's songs were also used as themes for popular anime series, expanding the band's fame internationally among fans of Japanese pop culture in dozens of countries around the world.

The band's recent achievements include establishment of their own new record label, Lingua Sounda, in 2012, and a 25th anniversary festival held in September 2012 at a special outdoor venue in Chiba Port Park, featuring an all-star roster of artists who contributed tracks to Buck-Tick's second tribute cover album, Parade II -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick-. In 2013, a double-feature documentary film, The Buck-Tick Phenomenon, was released to great acclaim in theaters across Japan.

In 2016, Buck-Tick returned to their original label, Victor Entertainment, after 20 years of separation, releasing a single, New World, followed by Atom Miraiha No. 9, their first new studio album since 2014.

In September 2017, the band cemented their legacy as Japanese rock legends by celebrating their 30th anniversary with a two-day outdoor concert series, Buck-Tick 2017 The Parade -30th Anniversary, "Fly Side" and "High Side," held on Tokyo's Odaiba Island before a crowd of more than 20,000 people. The next week, the band took to the stage again at MTV Japan's Video Music Japan awards to accept the Inspiration Award Japan, a special prize given to music artists who have had an outsize influence on the development of pop music in Japan.

In October 2017, the band embarked on a national tour, The Day in Question 2017, performing a selection of hits from their back catalog to celebrate their anniversary, and featuring a stadium performance at Takasaki Arena, near the band's home town.

Entering their 31st year of major label activities, the band show no sign of slowing down. Two new singles, Babel and Moon Sayonara wo Oshiete (Moon Tell Me Goodbye), preceded the band's 21st studio album, No. 0, and the band are currently in the middle of a new tour, Buck-Tick 2018 Tour No. 0, to promote the new album.